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Zurich Herald, 1938-06-02, Page 6Commentary on the Elizabeth Eedy HighBy Highlights of the Week's News .I k fight and declares he will carry the sister province. Though not willing to come out with the dire prediction that Saskatchewan is going to be another Alberta, we shall not be at all surprised to see the election result in a big win tor Social Credit, or perhaps the C.C.F. party. The people of Saskatchewan to a great exteut feel that they have been left in the lurch by Eastern Canada. The past six or seven year have been unceasing nightmare for vaat Hurd- bers of peop'e in the dried -out areas. They cannot face a repetition of the same experience which would be sure to come with the very next year of poor crops. In their desperation, they tura to something entirely new for hope and help. NOT QUITE READY—Despite repeat- ' d war "scares" in Europe the past ew weeks it is declared by political Observers who should know, and by newspaper foreign correspondents who can tell the iuside story, that Ger- many, the country l..esenting the big- gest threat to international peace, is not yet ready to engage in a large- scale war. The rearmament program of the Reich is far from being com- pleted, 'they point out; the general staff of the army are against precipi- tating a conflict at this time. Then, too, Germany's domestic economy has not been satisfactorily organized --it cannot be until the country 1s able to produce or import enough food to sup- ply its people in time of war, until it can procure enough raw materials to satisfy the needs of industry. The drought this spring has reduced Germany's Crop output to a figure away below average. 'Under such cir- cumstances it is highly improbable that Hitler will deliberately set a match to the European powder -keg within the next short while. Later, who can can tell . . ? * * * CRISES WILL RECUR—Diplomatic quarters in every democratic country of Europe are convinced that even though Germany did not march on Czechoslovakia 'est week -end or the one before, she will continue to pursue her aims (which include the carving of a thoroughfare east to the grain fields of the Ukraine) by a continuous series of diplomatic and propagandis- tic "shock attacks" until both France and Czechoslovakia are ripe for set- tlement along German lines. For that reason, it is held, the world must expect a periodic return of the same crisis through which it is pass- ing now—always provided the situa- tion in north-western Czechoslovakia does not get out of hand and precipi- tate a war,after -1l. From now on, it is predicted, we'll be lucky if we have brew thing -space:• * * SASKATCHEWAN'S ELECTION --On Tune S, the people of Saskatchewan go to the polis in one of the most import- ant elections in the history of that pro- vince. All the major forces of inte- gration and disintegration at work in Canada at this time are converging up- on Saskatchewan, can be seen attemp- ting to shape it to a new destiny. Saskatchewan go Social Credit? Premier Aberhart of Alberta, Socred chief, has jumped into the thick of the * * * WHERE WOMEN CAN'T VOTE --Did you know that women of Quebec have no vote in Provincial elections? In other words, half the people of that province have no say in matters po- litical, no representation in the Legis- lative Assembly. But throughout the rest of Canada where women are en- dowed with greater privilege, the facts of the Quebec situation are frequently fel gotten. Why haven't the women of Quebec a vote, we inquire? For the reason that up to now they have not asked for it hard enough. When the Canadian Alliance for Women's Vote in Quebec ap_earrd last month before the Rowell Commission, the Counsel for the Com- mission expressed his view thus: "I suggest when you persuade a major- ity of the women of Quebec that they should have the vote, and they ask for it, they will get it." * * * KIDNAPPING NO. 1—England, that little country whither Colonel and Mrs. Lindbergh fled as to a refuge from the kidnap threats and publicity hor- rors of the United States, has experi- enced its first "snatch" In modern times. Aad whom should the miscre- ants choose to make off with but Lord Nuffield, the "Ford of England," nnitimillionaire motor manufacturer and philanthropist. The plot, however, was nipped in the bud last week, when a friend in the next room of Lord Nuf eld's of- fice at Oxford, heard a scuffle, phoned for the police, had the two kidnappers abed in two minutes. It is thought that some time is like 1, to elapse before another kidnapping i attempted in England. G all wad 1 s I dia's Efl4rrts ival Corn W His Power Is Becoming Greatly Enhanced—Better Understand- ing Between the British and Gandhi Has Recently Been Felt Mahatma K. Gandhi today is a big- ger figure in India than ever. After a Iong period ot self-imposed silence and inactivity, he has staged a dra- matic comeback which places him once more in the world's limelight. The little Hindu who has led India's millions toward nationalism, recently scored a series of notable successes. They have culminated in a virtual agreement between Hindu and Moham- medan communities of India on most of their outstanding differences. Removes Barrier To Unity Thus one of the last barriers to real political unity of India's 360,000,000 people has been removed and Gandhi's position has been strengthened. Fresh from a tour of the Northwest Frontier province where a year ago he would have been arrested, the apostle of peace and passive resistance now exercises almost diotorial power over the Congress Party. Once an implacable opponent of Britons, who 'jailed him seven times, Gandhi now is their champion. This is due largely to Great Britain's recent conciliatory policy. The better understanding between the British and Gandhi has introduced a new spi- rit of mutual Confidence and hope throughout India. eco cale amts s The British War Minister On a Visit to France sassesee Belisha, British Minister of War, inspects the guard of honor upon his arrival by plane at Le Bourget airdrome, near Paris, following a visit to Rome. urea o°o �Sg S Progress in Main Avenues of Ad- vance Already Blocked, States Director Harold Butler, of In- ternational Labour Bureau, and Edifice Built by Present Gen- eration Undermined by Interna- tional Conflict. GENEVA,—Harold Butler, Director of the International Labor Office, last week warned that war is blocking world social progress and threatens to precipitate a "total collapse." In his annual. report the British chief of the labor bureau, a League Of Nations organization, reported fa- vorably on basic economic conditions, but declared: "War is already invad- in the social field." Find Early Men Dined on Sloths "It has already blocked some of the main avenues of advance," Mr. Butler reported, "and may soon begin to sap the social edifice which this generation has raised. Should another general war break out, a total collapse is prac- tically certain." The report, released by the Labor Office, will be submitted to the Inter- national Labor Conference here this 4twee later discovered and the charred month. bodies carried out of the mountains "Boom" at Crest in 1937 Mr. Butler found the "boom of the 30's" had reached its "summit" last summer despite world political un- rest, international warfare over tariffs 1 the rearmament program ends, the Californians 15,000 Years Ago Knew How to Cook Them First —Archaeological Discovery of Importance ays War dal Eiifice News In Review Ontario's Birth Rate Falls TORONTO. --Ontario Medical Asso- ciation spokesmen admit that On- tario's falling birth rate is being view- ed with some misgiving. If the last eight years' steady de- cline in the percentage figures is not halted in the next year or two, they admit that the situation will be one which may well occasion alarm. General economic conditions and high cost of living are the main fac- tors, they say, contributing to On- tario's steady decline in birth rate from 21.5 per 1,000 population in 1930 to 16.9 in 1936. —o— Missing Airliner Found Wrecked LOS ANGELES, CAL. — Thirty miles away from its starting point at Union Air Terminal, Burbank, a big airliner crashed into a mountainside last week, exploded and burned to death is nine occupants. Shrouded by fog for sixty hours, the wreckage by stretcher bearers. —o— They're Looking Ahead LONDON,—Fearing a slump when l sulin Helps insanity Cure Shock Treatment Is Found Suc- cessful in Many Cases of Dementia Praecox and quotas, exchange control, curren- cy fluctuations, unbalanced budgets and the world arms race. "In spite of all things," he said, "the world somehow succeeded in getting back to the level of 1929, whose fabu- lous prosperity had become a distant mirage." "Banish Spirit of Warfare" His report showed 1937 world indus- trial production rose above the 1929 level, unemployment declined steadily from 1933 to 1937 and world trade volume approached the 1929 level— partly stimulated by re -armament. But in the latter half of 1937, Mr. Butler said, the economic tide turned with stock market declines and breaks in raw material prices. He said the major disturbance centred in the United States. Mr. Butler added that the "outlook would be by no means discouraging if the spirit of international warfare could be banished from economic and political relations." Marked Decline in 1937 Discussing production the report proceeded:— "In 1937 world industrial production, excluding the U.S.S.R., rose clear above the 1929 level, and although in the later months a marked decline set in, the total for the year stood at 101.9-100 equalling the 1929 level. Canada was listed among the coun- tries replying favourably to an invita- tion to participate in a preliminary meeting of an international public works in accordance with a uniform plan to be drawn up by the committee. The first session has been set for June 27. Science is on the trail of the early Californians who feasted on Pleisto- cene ground sloths fifteen or twenty thousand years ago. It probably wasn't called. Sunny Ca- lifornia then, because glaciers str-tch- ed as far south as the higher San Bar- nardino Mountains. That's south of Los Angeles. The newly discovered ancient camp ground of the Pleistocene man found by C. C. Post of Berkley, Calif., has a.ehaeologists agog. Peace Prevails The country never has been so peaceful. Police who in the past sup- pressed nationalists agitators, and fill- ed prisons with demonstrators,. now stand idle at street corners. Because of British concessions to Eire, many influential Indians believe that India will have an autonomous government within a few years. Gandhi now is concentrating on ob- taining modifications of India's consti- titian to permit Indians to control de- fence, finance and foreign affairs—the vital Ministries which the British thus, far have retained. Despite reports that he was suffer- ing from a breakdown in health, Gand- hi looked better and more cheerful and vigorous than at any time in re- cent years. He showed his old time wit, energy and good humor. "They've had me dying several times, but I'Ve fooled thele," Gandhi said. He declared that he hoped to live long enough to see India a Dominion. Curator M. R. Harrington of the Southwest Museum, Los Angeles, is making ready for a second visit, to do some extensive digging in this an- cient camp site in Clear Lake Park, Lake County, Northern California. He fingered an Obsidian hand axe and some Obsidian scrapers. "We can't say just when these crude tools were used. It Inuit have been quite a spell before the time of the Folsom man, and that was 15,000 years ago," explained Harrington, an au- thority on southwest exploration. The crude scrapers ane hand axe were found at a depth of eight feet in excavating at the ancient camp -site. The early Pleistocene man knew how to make Are. Thisawas evidenced by discovery of ash -blackened earth. Just what he ate is something for the zoologists and paleontologists to fig- ure about. 11 seenns quite certain that the giant sloth was on his bill of fare. Elsewhere evidences have been found that the later Folsom man about 13,000 13.0., shot bison and mam- moth with arrows and roasted meat over fires. Mount Lassen was an active vol- cano, very much so, in the time of the Pleistocene man. The Sierra Nevada range -was still growing and there were numerous great earthquakes. Government already is mapping a £500,000,000 ($2,500,000,000) housing and road -building program to keep workers busy and trade moving. The Ministry of Health, which must sanction' such Government ventures, wants local authorities throughout the country to prepar live -year pro- grams of contemplated work, and re- vise them each year. —0— Path to Coast Blocked BARCELONA.—The Spanish rebels for several days have been attacking on a wide but somewhat intermittent front westward of Teruel in au evid- ent attempt to reach the road between Teruel and Sagunto in a roundabout way. The situation has dangerous possibilities, for should the rebels reach the road to Sagunto, they would have taken the first stride toward cut- ting a pathway to the sea by another route, that would place them about thirteen miles from Valencia, provid- el they ever reached Sagunto, whirs is still many miles away. —0— Senate Passes Divorce Bill OTTAWA.—By a bare majoity of four the Senate last week carried third reading of the bill sponsored by Hon. Landrum McMean•• (Con., Win- nipeg) to broaden the grounds for di- vorce in Canada. The vote ems 33 to 29. The measure now goes to the House of Cominons, where its course is un- certain. As a private bill it is sub- ject to the rest •i. tione of time '-'tick now govern such measures et this stage of the session. —o— If a driver is stung by a wasp and lets go his steering wheel as a result of the pain, he will be held responsible for any damage caused by accident, according to a decision of the Cour de Caseation in France. Fur Coat Industry Grows In Canada i'ifty doses of insulin over a two - months' period are adtninietered to the patients. It is administered every morning six dayS a week, beginning With small Closes and increasing un- til the point of tolerance is reached. At this point restless reaction, dizele ness, or even unconsciousness is reached. Some patients go into deep comas, and tug and writhe at ankle and wrist restraints, breaking out into profuse Perspiration. Only a desperate at- tempt to rescue a patient from a fate worse than death could justify the se- verity of the treatment, x calla Dementia praecox, a form of insan- ity which claims no less than a quar- ter of a million victims in the United States alone, has been treated with success, doctors at Pittsburg, Pa., re- port after many months' work with in- sulin shock treatment. At the St. Francis Hospital 52 cases of "living death" have been treated since last June, and 19 of these treat- ments resulted in discharge from the hospital for the dtte-time "incurable" patients. Twenty-three of those 52 cases have been completed, according to Dr. R. S. Staley, chief resident physician, 28 are at present undergoing treatment, and one patient was removed from the hospital before completion of the treatments. The patients, chosen at random, re- present a fairly accurate cross-section of those admitted to a mental institu- tion. They Must Know All The Answers Household Helpers Taught In Government Schools Have To Reply Satisfactorily to (dues-, tions Do you know how to clean piano keys? How to snake a good pastrye The different methods of coffeemalfe ing? The silverware, cutlery, disltee and crystal necessary to set• a table for breakfast, formal luncheon and dinner? These are just a few of the qualifica- tions taught young women at the Otta- wa Home Service Training Centre, where the Dominion -Provincial Youth Training program has shown remark- able achievements in turning out cap- able household assistants since its organization in January. Determine Girls' Ability Five written examinations are giv- en the girls during their 12 -weeks training. Two questions on deport- ment,' two on laundry and household duties and two on cooking are set by the members of the household staff for each examination. "Trainees" failing to obtain the required pass mark of 70 are given oral reviews by the girls passing with highest marks before secondary trials. These tests determine the ability of the girl and ratings are registered on her preliminary graduate certificate for information ot her future employ- er. Placed in Good Homes Tite centre is responsible for the care and training of the girls during their sojourn there. They are placed in good homes at the end of the train- ing and after three months' actual ser- vice outside the centre a report is made and, if satisfactory, each girt is presented with a graduation pin. Dressed and dyed, or undyed, skins of forbearing anima.is are fash- ioned into wearing apparel of vari- ous kinds by the fur goods industry of Canada. Coats, capes, scarves,. collars, cuffs and muffs are some of the items manufactured but the principal of all is the fur coat. Ac- cording to statistics now made avail- able, the fur coats made in Canada for women in 1936 totalled 90,602. This is the largest number ever re- corded by the industry. Practically the whole demand for fur goods in Canada is met by the home industry, and likewise nearly all of the goods manufactured in the Dominion are made for home use, the import and export trades in manufactured fur goods being of relatively small im- portance. More Cabiaet Changes Asked LONDON.—Premier Neville Clean- berlain's reconstruce.on of the Cabinet with Sir Renl•sley Wood "eplacing count • intoe at the Air Ministry, and Malcolm Macdonald ' ..'^' Lord Bar- lecit's host at the Colo.,ial Office, has not satisfied all r'-monts of the Con- s -'---" Party. Thee is a feeling that the eh - are use • exnc:'::int a limited, and that certain Cabinet posts could be better filled. THE WORLD AT LARGE „ _.n._.. of the CANADA It's Where Our Interest Lies Most public problems should be solved when we come to know as much about methods of government as we know about the movies.—Brandon Sun. And the Rest of the Week "Why not have all holidays on Mon- days?" asks 'the Owen Sound Sun - Times. We can think of a better oue than that. Why not have all Mon- days holidays?—Chatham News. Pledges Come Cheap Hitler affirms that Germany will march with Italy to the end and that the Italian frontier will always be in- violate. A similar frontier pledge was also once made from Berlin with re- gard to Belgium and by Mussolini in relation to Ethiopia.—Brantford Ex- positor. "Hot Dog" Listed Drink More Milk Dr. K. C. Hopper, of the Dominion Department o£ Agriculture, says Ca- nadians as a whole drink too little milk. He has presented to the Cana- dian Council on Nutrition statistics showing that if all drank as much milk as families with comfortable incomes the increased demand would equal the production of more than 200,000 dairy cows. Dairy farmers will applaud his plea for the use of more milk.—King- ston Whig -Standard. What Makes An Accident A study of newspaper reports of death, injury and destruction on the highways will convince any reader that very, very few of them were un- avoidable. A driver is moving so swiftly that he fails to take a curve and piles into the ditch; a driver with his attention fixed on something else doesn't notice the•railway tracks and crushes into a train; a driver comes to the crest of a bill 0.0r the centre line and meets bead -on a oar going about its business in the opposite di- rection—the long story of the circum- stances that bring accidents le their train is painfully familiar. --Ottawa Journal. When They Retire • It is interesting to see how different people take their retirement front ac - Live work. One man recently retired Groin railroad work is taking life with the zest of a boy and is enjoying every minute doing; things'tltat have so long been denied him because of his work. 'flow differently folk spend the lei- sure of their eventide! Some settle down at home in a kind of Mental co - As Big Bt's ss The "hot dog" comes under the heading of big business where Can. ada and New Zealand arceconcet'ned. J. W. Collins, retiring New Zea- land trade commissioner to Canada, said last weolt at 'Toronto at a com- p)iinentary luncheon that Cant&da is ^Tew Zealand's best customer for hot clog nein s, purchasing more than $1,000,000 worth last year. CANADA THE EMPIRE ata, apparently iuterested in nothing except to be comfortable. Some look about to see if " ere isn't some com- munity work they can get into that will help the town, while others just sit back, find fault and growl. To which class do you expect to be- long once you retire from your regular occupation or profession?—Kitchener Record. Why Not Finish the Job? With the Dominion Government at work on the last 30 miles of British Columbia's gap in the trans -Canada highway, there remains only some- thing over 200 miles to be completed in Ontario before we can travel the 4,000 miles across Canada by motor- car. And the fact that the latter route lies through the extremely difficult territory around Lake Superior should not deter us from getting on with the job, when you consider what can be accomplished both during and after its completion. Thpusands of single men wbo woule benefit from'healtby outdoor construe - tem work must still accept relief. Does this fact not suggest an opportunity for earnest co-operation between the Government or Ontario and Ottawa to provide that work rather than direct relief? --Canadian Business. THE EMPIRE Non -Voting Voters In the House of Lords recently an alarm was sounded concerning the in- creasing apathy of the electorate— especially at mtunicipal elections—and it was suggested that the Government should take measures "to stimulate the interest of the public in the oxer - vise of its traditional rights." What measures could the Government take? To make voting compulsory would be a negation of the freedom which the vote is intended to safeguard; and to strike off the electoral roll absentee voters would simply band over power to possibly a minority of the discont- ented—an effect indeed, which apathy in the general body of the electorate may itself produce, if only for a time, There is not a little irony, it is tree, in the reflection that the valuation of the vole seems to diminish as its dis- unbutton is eatended—very much like an iuftated. currency. But, wbile every sign of electoral indifference conveys a warning, there seems no reason to fear that democracy will cease to fuer t:oft.---Ti1lly Telegraph and Morning Post, Loudon.